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Michael Buckley Audiobooks

Children's fiction firmly on the side of the odd ones out, as The Weirdies suggests

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The Weirdies · 1 book

Who is Michael Buckley?

Michael Buckley, born in 1969, is a children’s book author – and beyond that bare fact, we will keep this profile honest rather than ornate. His is a name shared by a remarkable number of public figures, so this page confines itself to the writer whose work actually sits in our catalogue.

What matters for our purposes is the job description. Writing well for children is one of the hardest tricks in publishing: young audiences are ruthless, they cannot be flattered into finishing a book, and they reward pace, humour and invention above everything else. An author who makes a career in that arena has earned a degree of respect that the brevity of this biography should not disguise.

Michael Buckley in audiobooks

Children’s fiction is quietly one of the best uses of the audiobook: shared listening on car journeys, bedtime chapters without a screen, and reluctant readers discovering that stories are for them after all. The Weirdies, Buckley’s title in our catalogue, wears its intentions in its name – this looks like fiction firmly on the side of the odd ones out, which is exactly where the best children’s books tend to stand.

For UK families, a title like this is an easy experiment: put it on and see who drifts into the room to listen. Buckley writes for an audience that knows precisely what it likes, and audio is a very forgiving way to find out whether yours agrees.